Harvey Milk
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 Harvey Milk facts

• Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters until around the age of 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960s
• Milk moved from New York City to settle in San Francisco in 1972 amid a migration of gay men to the Castro District
• He took advantage of the growing political and economic power of the neighborhood to promote his interests, and three times ran unsuccessfully for political office
• His theatrical campaigns earned him increasing popularity, and Milk won a seat as a city supervisor in 1977, his election made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics
• Milk served almost 11 months in office and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city
• On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned to pursue a private business enterprise but who had sought his position back after that endeavor failed
• Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community
• In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States"
• Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager, wrote of him: "What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary
• He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us